Warehousing and Distribution

Anti-ageing products, vitamins, cosmetics, household goods etc. - the promotion of wellness in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia is powered by the high-performing Pruszków Logistics Centre near Warsaw. In the 5,900 sq.m. (63,500 sq.ft.) distribution centre of the worldwide Access Business Group, everything centers on the products from its sister company Amway, a major global direct selling enterprise. The DC handles a yearly average volume of 430,000 orders, representing seven million articles.

The Pruszków Logistics Centre is a textbook example of how to perfectly combine intelligent conveyor units with order picking equipment. The result is a space and energy-saving solution for a yearly output of 500,000 parcels sent to Amway business owners in the said three countries. The zero-pressure accumulation conveyor section with the Interroll Intelliveyor is at the very heart of the DC and guarantees a continuous material flow.

The Intelliveyor lines meet the need for as long a buffer section as possible. They feed the order picking zone with empty boxes and forward the full boxes to the dispatch zone. The individual zones are only switched on when the cartons have to be moved, thereby saving energy as do the gravity driven lanes of the Interroll Carton Flow shelves in the picking area. There, containers gently travel on Interroll‘s gravity roller tracks to the output side based on the "first in first out“ (FIFO) principle.

Maximising the usage of limited space and minimising energy consumption are the most crucial factors for successful warehouse operation. No other product group makes that more obvious than fast-moving and perishable consumer goods. Food, beverages and household goods need to be distributed in double-quick time. But how can space be organised in a way that makes your material flow run like clockwork? Renowned companies around the world have found the answer in dynamic storage technology from Interroll. They have made flow storage of pallets, containers and boxes a key ingredient of their success recipe.

With an experienced eye for the big picture, Interroll offers you the kind of conveyor rollers that are versatile and essential key products in the portfolio of any successful developer, manufacturer or system integrator. Our rollers safely convey anything from egg cartons to heavy pallets - across all continents and in all sectors. Designed for easy integration and fail-safe operation, the new Interroll Conveyor Rollers are:

• totally environmentally friendly (0.00% CO2 emission)
• absolutely energy-saving (only 0.01% starting resistence - belt conveyors up to 0.3%!)
• even faster and quieter due to perfect concentricity

Interroll conveyor rollers bring new plants up to speed, and retrofit or expand existing plant. They convey, accumulate, merge, divert and combine goods. With or without accumulation pressure. Powered or with gravity.

Very often they are installed in distribution centres such as the beverage logistics centre of the German company Kempf GmbH located in Balingen. There, some 8,000 of its 14,500 pallet positions use gravity-driven roller modules for dynamic storage of pallets weighing between 200 and 1,000 kg. Most of these pallets are stored first-in first-out (FIFO). One of two buffer storage levels near the picking tunnel has been designed as a pushback system with last-in first-out functionality (LIFO). This area was expanded and equipped with Interroll LIFO Speed Controllers, a special roller increasing storage speeds by up to 50% and enhancing operational safety.

Likewise, the associated empties sorting plant uses the energy-efficient gravity principle. Its 230 incline roller conveyors store crates. Other dynamic flow modules are used in the empty crate sorting zone prior to consignment-specific provisioning of sorted batches. Empty pallets glide smoothly and safely on Interroll wheel flow modules to the unloading side.